Update: Penetration Testing Day 5th April 2014

Taken from: http://northampton.bcs.org/events.php?menu_id=4

Venue: The University of Northampton , Newton Building, St Georges Avenue, Northampton , NN2 6JB

Organiser: BCS Northampton Branch

Price: BCS Member £30 +VAT Non Members £40 +VAT Students £25+VAT

Click Here To Book A Place

April 5th 2014 - Pen Testing Training Day

Do you think you have the skills to work as a white hat hacker? Does the idea of penetration testing applications and infrastructure and learning the latest techniques for breaking into systems seem to be your ideal career? Are you able to describe complex technical issues to non-technical managerial staff without using complex technical terms? If you've been working as a developer, in infrastructure or application support, and maybe already know the difference between nmap, metasploit and sql injection, then this could be the event for you! 

We're running a one day complete overview of penetration testing starting with how to develop a career in penetration testing, through the methodologies involved and how to be a professional, ethical, hacker to the common tools and techniques used. The afternoon session provides you with an opportunity to demonstrate your skills as you work in teams to hack into other team's systems and protect your own. Please note this opportunity is only open to a maximum of 30 BCS members, and that we recommend only those who have a genuine interest in a penetration testing career, and have experience of working with web applications, databases, and network protocols should register. 

Provisional Timetable

Registration

09:00 - 09:30

Workshop Introduction

09:30 - 10:00

Pentest Careers

10:00 - 10:45

Pentest Methodology

10:45 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 11:45

Pentest Tools and Techniques - pt 1

11:45 - 12:30

Lunch

12:30 - 13:30

Pentest Tools and Techniques - pt 2

13:30 - 14:15

Capture the Flag Introduction

14:15 - 14:30

Capture the Flag - pt 1

14:30 - 16:00

Capture the Flag - pt 2

16:15 - 17:30

Networking

17:30 - 18:00

Venue: The University of Northampton , Newton Building, St Georges Avenue, Northampton , NN2 6JB

Organiser: BCS Northampton Branch

Price: BCS Member £30 +VAT Non Members £40 +VAT Students £25+VAT

                   Click Here To Book A Place

BCS Northampton: Introduction to the world of Crypto

Date: Thursday, 4th October 2012 Title: ’Introduction to the world of Crypto’
Time: Evening session with networking opportunities and light bites/drinks

- Registration: 18:30

- Session 1: 19:00

- Break & Networking session: 19:45

- Session 2: 20:00

- Q&A: 20:45

- End: 21:00

Presenter: Sarith Chandra BEng MSc (Eng.) [Uni. Of Sheffield] MSc [Royal Holloway] Security+ CISSP MBCS ISO 27001 – YPG Professional Representative for BCS Northampton (2010-2012)

Venue: University of Northampton Avenue Campus (The Great Hall), Newton Building, St Georges Avenue, Northampton, NN2 6JB

Register here:

- Open to both BCS and non-BCS members, no cost.

- Students and young professionals are encouraged to attend

- To enable us to accurately monitor numbers can we ask that you please register for this event here: https://events.bcs.org/book/159/

Objectives: 
    - Introduce Cryptography for Beginners
    - Refresher of basic Crypto concepts for Practitioners

    - Learn some Best practices

Detail: (May be subject to last minute changes)    - Cryptology
    - Cipher Exercises
    - Cryptography
    - Cryptanalysis
    - Some Best Practices
    - Crypto Challenge (competition)
Pre-requisites:
    - You are only required to have general awareness of IT and Security
    - You must be keen to learn about this field and its concepts

    - Experts please note: The session will not delve into the mathematics of cryptography and is suitable for absolute beginners

BCS Career Event - update.

Purpose: This event is organized to help support students of IT in their pursuit for employment. We hope to cover several routes in to work including 
 Placement and Internship schemes 
 Direct entry into work post-graduation 
 Graduate schemes
  Self-employment 


The aim is to make this event useful to students in IT at different stages (1st, 2nd and final years) of their respective courses and expect to have students from both campuses attending. Everyone will have something to take from this event. 


Highlights of this event will be a Q&A session featuring a panel comprising the speakers at the event as well as some students of the University who have gone through the various employment routes themselves and stalls from a selection of employers into IT roles in and around Northampton.  




Date: Thursday, 17th May 2012
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm  
Venue: Avenue Campus, University of Northampton (Newton Building) 

Agenda

• 6:30 - 7:00 Tea/coffee, students to visit stalls 
• 7:20 - 7:40 First speaker: The Graduate (preparing for interviews/CV) 
• 7:00 - 7:20 Second speaker: Lydia Selby (finding good placements, intern schemes and/or going selfemployed)
• 7:40 - 8:00 Third speaker: Network Rail (Graduate schemes /Assessment centres) 
• 8:00 - 8:15 Refreshments 
• 8:15 - 8:45 (may go on till 9:00) Panel 

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries or concerns. 


Thank you for your interest and I look forward to your kind contribution. 


Vimukthi Mahindaratne, BCS Committee Member (Young Professionals Group) 
Email: vimukthilk@gmail.com 

BCS funding for Women in STEM event

The BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT has provided £1500  funding for the forthcoming International Women's Day event on 7th March.

7th March 2012

Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures

University of Northampton, Newton Building

For more information contact Rashmi Dravid. 

Outreach

View more PowerPoint from Scott Turner

Cancelled: Introduction to the world of Crypto 26/1/2012

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled due to ill health of the presenter.

For more details of forthcoming BCS Northampton events please visit 

http://northampton.bcs.org/forthcoming_events.php?menu_id=4

Security risks in a "nothing to hide society - BCS Northampton event

Thursday, 24th November 2011 - Security risks in a "nothing to hide society"

Speaker : Tom Schneider - Senior Security Consultant - Open Systems AG Zurich

Time: 19:00 start
Location: Room NW205 in The Newton Building, Avenue Campus, University Of Northampton, NN2 6JD. Parking is available at the rear of the building.

This event is open to Members and non-Members, just arrive on the night.

A look at the privacy and security risks associated with the use of Social Media (i.e. Facebook), Wikileaks & Cloud based services
- How does it affect you ?
- How does it affect business/companies ?

How can these risks be mitigated and how do these challenges in IT security develop into interesting careers ?

Introducing Open Systems a Zurich based high security business and examples of their work with one of their high profile clients the International Red Cross. .

Biography: Tom Schneider is currently Open Systems Senior Key Account Manager for NGO's (UNICEF, UNDP, WHO and ICRC)

He studied at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland, where he gained an engineer's degree in Communications and Informatics.

During his studies, Tom Schneider worked for Bank Leu and Credit Suisse in the global network operations team in Zurich.

He joined Open Systems in 2005. Before his role as a Senior Key Account Manager he was head of a professional service unit, in charge of engineering and customer project implementations.

• Newton Building, University of Northampton

·         Open Systems (Zurich)

For more information about BCS Northampton Events follow this link.